Newcomer / Intro Hi all!

[Madmatt2002]

Well, like most elite addicts I'm a forty something bloke who has been watching the developments with interest. Spent most of my youth playing the original, and funnily enough have my bbc micro in bits right now replacing blown capacitors to get the original up and running for the first time in 30 yrs!
Im disappointed the game is only available as download, I think frontier would sell a lot if it were out in DVD form, boxed with a book, much like the original!
give it some thought Mr Braben!
good luck to all the team, I really hope it's another groundbreaker, and not too complex like most games these days!
regards
madmatt

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Boxed editions are available in the store as an upgrade to your purchase, although with updates intended to happen all the time a CD edition would get out of date very quickly.

Rest assured, it's the Elite we played back in the eighties, but with all the bits we dreamed of back then.

 

[Madmatt2002]

Rest assured, it's the Elite we played back in the eighties, but with all the bits we dreamed of back then.[/QUOTE]


Sounds absolutely awesome! Will get it very soon. Wish I had the time now I had back then to play it!
remember playing it from 7am Saturday thru to 7pm Sunday, when I should have been doing homework!(funny how I now see my boy playing COD with the same passion-shame it's not as innocent a game eh)
BTW-bbc all fixed, powered up and running.will the original disc work? Fingers crossed. Never did make it to elite, just dangerous.Was always trading, not going all out for combat, and with the help of the net realise the only way to become elite was to get a kill count of ships. I seem to remember I was worth lots of money though

 

[Juby]

Rest assured, it's the Elite we played back in the eighties, but with all the bits we dreamed of back then.

^^^ This! If you are an '84 veteran then the basic concepts will already be familiar to you and you will feel right at home from day one. I suggest going through the tutorial videos on the website though as there are enough changes to make things a little confusing at first (how to navigate round the galaxy map, how supercruise works, etc.).

I am over the moon at how much this game retains the '84 feel and how well it plays today using pretty much the same game concepts just with much prettier visuals and sound and other real people in game. I think it also shows just how much ahead of it's time the original was given that games like Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, et al were its main competition at the time.

 

[Barking_Mad]

I still remember the day our BBC B+ (64k! WHOOP! Disk drive! Double Whoop!) arrived and me and my brother set it up and played this for the first time. It was a sandbox before the term had been invented. 30 years later we played it again last night and shared the same thrill. Same game, just more advanced and prettier looking.

He's now a games programmer working on the worlds biggest selling title - and Elite was a big part of the reason he went into gaming. It was great to go back to where it all started.

I dont have a PC to run this, but i WILL be buying one when i can afford it. I understand those who don't like it, it's very marmite and people flying round the galaxy trading can get very boring for some, but me, I love it.

 

[Richard]

Oh yeah - you're going to love this.

Planets that are more than just white circles on the screen, space stations you can fly inside of, an expanded trading and economy system (there's more to it than Agricultural vs Industrial these days )...

Hope to see you out there some day soon!